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Lee Myung Bak's Pro-Japanese Remarks Condemned
Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea Friday gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA in connection with the disclosure of the truth behind pro-Japanese remarks made by south Korea's Lee Myung Bak on Tok Islets.

WikiLeaks recently disclosed that when Fukuda, the then Japanese prime minister, said in July 2008 that Tok Islets would be written as part of Japan's territory in the new guidelines on teaching social subjects in primary and secondary schools of Japan, traitor said, "Wait for a little as it is difficult now."

This issue was opened to public by Japanese newspapers at that time, stirring up a big furor in south Korea. But the Lee Myung Bak regime stubbornly insisted he never made such remarks, glossing over the issue.

But the truth about his remarks have been undeniably confirmed as a U.S. diplomatic cable disclosed the specific contents of Lee's remarks which the then first secretary of the south Korean embassy in Tokyo conveyed to an official concerned of the U.S. embassy in Tokyo and his words that he felt feelings of perfidy when hearing those remarks.

In this connection opposition parties and personages of various social strata in south Korea are scathingly condemning the traitor, saying that the rumor afloat four years ago proved to be truth and it is nonsensical and deplorable that the remarks little short of abandoning Tok Islets were made by him. Media are also making a big uproar.

The pro-Japanese treacherous remarks made by Lee amount to an official promise made by him before his master that he would abandon the sovereignty over Tok Islets, part of the inviolable territory of the Korean nation from the historical and geographical points of view, and hand them over to Japan when the time comes.

This is sparking off towering resentment among all Koreans as it is a despicable sycophantic and treacherous act little short of what "the five traitors of 1905" did as they sold off the country to Japanese imperialism 100 odd years ago.

Looking back on history, the Lee group has drawn water to Japan's mill for reinvasion of Korea by conniving at and encouraging the Japanese reactionaries in their moves to grab the islets through its disgraceful diplomacy of submission to Japan and pro-Japanese sycophancy and treachery ever since it came to power.

Whenever they marked the islets as part of Japan's territory in the white paper for defense and committed such brigandish act as distorting history textbooks, the Lee group has never properly taken issue with those practices with a vague attitude, asserting that "south Korea should not be involved in a dispute" and it is better to conduct "quiet diplomacy" and exercise "self-restraint". When the south Korean Maritime Institute was to set up the Tok Islets General Maritime Scientific Base, the group forced it to delete the expression of Tok Islets from the name, saying it may get on Japan's nerves.

Last year it did not hesitate to commit such treachery as opening Ullung Islet close to Tok Islets under the pretext of "tourism" to the Japanese reactionaries keen to stretch out tentacles of reinvasion of Ullung Islet in a bid to grab Tok Islets at any cost.

The Japanese reactionaries are now becoming all the more arrogant in their moves to grab Tok Islets due to such pro-Japanese treacherous acts of the Lee group.

His pro-Japanese remarks are unpardonable treacherous crimes as they reveal once again before the world the despicable true colors as the worst traitor.

The world does not know such vicious traitor as Lee who is resorting to pro-Japanese and pro-U.S. sycophantic acts while standing in confrontation with fellow countrymen with swords and yielding to the sworn enemy of the nation.

It is impossible for the south Korean people to escape disasters nor is it possible for the nation to escape misfortune as long as the group of sycophants and traitors are allowed to stay in power.

The south Korean people have already dealt a sledge hammer blow at the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors.

The group would be well advised to bear in mind that only the nation's stern judgment awaits the group engrossed in sycophantic and treacherous acts and confrontation with fellow countrymen.

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